Book Review: Noon

By: Jasodhara Banerjee/Forbes India

Aatish Taseer is more eager to hold a mirror to myriad issues that India and Pakistan chose to shy away
Noon is the story of Rehan Tabassum and his discovery of an India he is not familiar and comfortable with and a Pakistan he did not know.

As a young boy, Rehan comes to India with his Punjabi mother Udaya, after his Pakistani father Sahil abandons them in London. Udaya marries Amit Sethia, an ambitious businessman eager to grab by the collar every opportunity that a rapidly changing India offers him.

Growing up in the shadow of Sethia